Book of Joel Chapter 1 Vs. 9

 An Invasion of Locusts

The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn. Joel 1:9

The meat offering… To cut off these offerings, sacrificed each morning and evening (Exo. 29:38-42; Lev. 23:13), was to cut off the people from the covenant. The gravity of the situation was deepened by the fact that it threatened the livelihood of the priests, who were given a portion of most sacrifices.

מִנְחָה

minchâh

min-khaw'

From an unused root meaning to apportion, that is, bestow; a donation; euphemistically tribute; specifically, a sacrificial offering (usually bloodless and voluntary): - gift, oblation, (meat) offering, present, sacrifice.

These offerings had been a time of fellowship with God. These accompanied the morning and evening sacrifices. Suddenly, all of this is stopped. They have lost contact with their God. The priests the LORD'S ministers mourn, because they had lived of these offerings. Their livelihood is completely gone. Israel in its state these days.

The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.

is cut off... The primary reason for mourning in this case was the plague’s negative effect on the formal worship system (cf. Joel 1:13). The destruction of the crops (grain, grapes, and olive oil, Joel 1:10; cf. Hos. 2:22) had left the priests who served in the house of the Lord without the essentials for the daily grain offerings minḥâh, which included flour and oil (cf. Num. 28:5), and drink offerings nesek, which included wine (cf. Exo. 29:40; Num. 28:7).

כָּרַת

kârath

kaw-rath'

A primitive root; to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication to destroy or consume; specifically to covenant (that is, make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces): - be chewed, be con- [feder-] ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ([covenant]), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want. 

mourn... Twelfth & Thirteenth of twenty-two Predictions—Fulfilled here:

אָבַל

'âbal

aw-bal'

A primitive root; to bewail: - lament, mourn.

The meat and drink offerings will be cut off from the temple (Joel 1:9, 1:13).

Priests will mourn (Joel 1:9).

The meat offering... The primary reason for mourning in this case was the plague’s negative effect on the formal worship system (cf. Joel 1:13).